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Jerome Moore @robotnose.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

π going full goblin. She is exceptionally careful with her claws; if they touch skin she retracts instantly, so she enjoys going wild on something inanimate. #caturday

cat in a carpeted circular bed flailing around madly in a battle with a drumstick

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Jerome Moore @robotnose.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This was my favorite - I got to try laser welding. It was fun and relatively easy at least for this simple piece.

A booth with laser welding equipment inside. The windows are yellow due to laser safety filters for observers.

A welded part, two pieces of steel joined with one long seam. The seam is about 150mm / 6" long.

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Jerome Moore @robotnose.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Boston Dynamics showed off multiple robotic quadrupeds moving safely around humans and dealing with factory environment issues like... stairs. These held thermal cameras, which would let them find problems like leaks or overheating equipment.

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Jerome Moore @robotnose.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There were plenty of robots running demos. The speed and agility is impressive. This is where automation excels.

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Jerome Moore @robotnose.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

That car has even less cabin space than my MX5.

Cabin of the racecar showing a very tight fit for one pilot, with a set of controls and buttons on a dashboard, and a safety cage made from carbon fiber.

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Jerome Moore @robotnose.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) was held last week in Chicago. It is enormous - taking up most of the largest convention space in North America. I spent a few hours there.

A race car that is scheduled for upcoming races, on a convention floor with people nearby discussing it and warehousing technology.

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Jerome Moore @robotnose.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

π beverage challenge, the more precarious the better #caturday

A cat stands awkwardly on a dish drain over a large metal kitchen sink, drinking water streaming from the faucet.

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Jerome Moore @robotnose.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Just one type of substance, with a subset of 61 volatile compounds, and the variation can be dramatic. This is good work, but it takes a lot via instruments and processing to get to the same ID space as a connoisseur can in seconds.

Figure from a preprint article showing chemotype classification of 165 drug-type cannibis accessions. There are plots showing statistical groupings of various kinds with 61 identified volatile organic compounds.

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Jerome Moore @robotnose.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Almost forgot #caturday. Here's π in low-fi, using the cool BitCam app from @heliographe.studio :

Cat in low-fi photo, looking out a screen door into the night. Her pupils are maxed out wide.

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Jerome Moore @robotnose.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Chemist: glass in an index-matched solution disappears

Half-full beaker with a polymer liquid with a lot of bubbles in it. There is a glass rod that is sticking into the liquid, but not visible below the surface.

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Jerome Moore @robotnose.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

#caturday pic from a couple of weeks ago of π and Penny. This is where they go when the tornado sirens sound off, or there is thunder, or fireworks. I forgot to leave my luggage open, Penny likes to crawl inside for extra safety.

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Jerome Moore @robotnose.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Really it's the Third Man, but that's been said multiple times so:

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Jerome Moore @robotnose.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

It was old even then, but we passed around a copy of one of the Life in Hell collections in grad school and laughed hard at this one. One postdoc got mad at the lower left part, said the dropouts were wise and happy.

Life in Hell comic from 1987: School is Hell lesson 19 Grad school some people never learn

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Jerome Moore @robotnose.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I'm seeing generative junk like this more often on LinkedIn. Nobody criticizes. It even gets likes and comments praising it. Propagating ignorance, how sad.

Generative graphic purporting to show a pulsed laser deposition setup. It has numerous errors, the most basic of which is that the laser beam isn't pointed the right way or hitting the right thing for this to even work.

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Jerome Moore @robotnose.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

#caturday the normally dignified Penny loses it for some catnip on a rope

grey tabby cat with white paws playing with a chew rope

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Jerome Moore @robotnose.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

π is baffled that humans take zero or one nap per day instead of the usual seven. #caturday

dilute tortie cat with green eyes on a bed with a grey blanket

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Jerome Moore @robotnose.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Plot of my home monitor indoor air PM2.5 levels for the last week. The earlier spike is from when I skillet fried some zucchini. Outdoor level is 493 now.

A plot of PM2.5 levels (vertical) vs hours. The blue line stays near the bottom of the plot at 0-20 except for one spike around hour 42 to 90. At the right side of the plot, the levels climb over the last 24 hours to a level of 150, which is hazardous.

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Jerome Moore @robotnose.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Went to a class with my wife at @lspotterystudio-lc.bsky.social on Saturday, it was pretty fun! Recommended.

Woman painting a piece of clay formed into a bowl, still on a throwing wheel.

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Jerome Moore @robotnose.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Jurassic Park and bonkers stuff like Event Horizon or Until the End of the World all had prime Sam Neill moments. My favorite are in this unpretentious comedy though:

Blu-ray disc cover of The Dish, an Australian film about the role of the scrappy Parkes radio observatory in supporting communications from the Apollo 11 landing and moonwalk.

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Jerome Moore @robotnose.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

#caturday This is our other cat Penny. She is more aloof and judgmental than π. Her favorite thing besides food is jumping into this basket so she can be vigorously petted while getting soothingly scruffed on all sides by the wicker.

tabby cat with white paws laying at the bottom of a wicker basket

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Jerome Moore @robotnose.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

The quality of air quality data is improving. This is a reasonable map of the LA area showing hazardous air around Riverside. We have enough density, now it would be good to have NOx and other species measured.

Map of greater Los Angeles showing bands of air quality - near the coast is relatively low, but there is a dark cluster of hazardous air in the west valley area centered near Riverside, with larger bands of bad air covering a 20-30 mile wide area.

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Jerome Moore @robotnose.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

This is π , my wife's covid cat. She is the most vocal cat I've ever known. Imagine R2D2 but in trills and meows. There's rarely any doubt what she's thinking.

dilute tortie cat looking up at camera from a white and tan padded hammock

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Jerome Moore @robotnose.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Just one example, this is how waves of light look going through a focusing lens:

A simulation of waves of light propogating from the top of the image to the bottom. Near the top there is a cross section of a lens shape, and the waves below that converge to a 'waist', then diverge further down.

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Jerome Moore @robotnose.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

This is AIPs summary of the DOE Office of Science funding. Most are flat or inflation matching.

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Jerome Moore @robotnose.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

She surely will. This is Edie about middle age. I still miss her, but maybe less so her 5am alert howls that there was a rabbit in the yard the whole house needed to come see.

Tri-color beagle looking tired, on a couch, leaning against a pillow and under a blanket.

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Jerome Moore @robotnose.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

This is my US map. Hard to capture different people's experiences of the country this way. Even parts of cities can vary a lot, states can be wildly different within their borders.